BILL NUMBER: SB 569	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 27, 1999
	AMENDED IN SENATE   APRIL 5, 1999

INTRODUCED BY   Senator Alarcon

                        FEBRUARY 23, 1999

   An act to add Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 19820) to Part
2 of Division 10 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, relating to
disabled persons, and making an appropriation therefor.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   SB 569, as amended, Alarcon.  Employment of persons with
disabilities.
   Existing law creates various employment programs for persons with
disabilities under the jurisdiction of the Department of
Rehabilitation.
   This bill would require the department to allocate funds to
 Jewish Vocational Services, Inc. in Los Angeles 
 a private, nonprofit organization in Los Angeles County that has
demonstrated the ability to provide assessment and vocational
services to disabled clients for over a period of at least 50 years
 , for operation of an employment program for persons with
disabilities meeting specified requirements.
   This bill would appropriate $115,000 from the General Fund to the
department for allocation  to Jewish Vocational Services,
Inc.  for startup costs and first-year implementation of the
program.
   Vote:  2/3.  Appropriation:  yes.  Fiscal committee:  yes.
State-mandated local program:  no.


THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:


  SECTION 1.  Chapter 9.5 (commencing with Section 19820) is added to
Part 2 of Division 10 of the Welfare and Institutions Code, to read:


      CHAPTER 9.5.  PREEMPLOYMENT PROGRAM FOR PERSONS WITH
DISABILITIES

   19820.  (a) The department shall allocate funding pursuant to this
chapter to  Jewish Vocational Services, Inc. in Los Angeles
  a private, nonprofit organization in Los Angeles
County that has demonstrated the ability to provide assessment and
vocational services to disabled clients for over a period of at least
50 years  in order to establish an employment program for
adults with developmental, physical, and emotional disabilities who
are eligible for  regional center services and are not active
clients with the Department of Rehabilitation.  The program shall
serve not more than 25 clients annually.    Department
of Rehabilitation services but who are currently unable to receive
those services.  Regional center clients shall not be eligible for
the pilot project. 
   (b) The program shall serve adults with one or more disabilities
who express a desire to increase their daily living skills to a level
that will enable them to obtain community-based employment and who
can benefit from a structured program outside their home environment.

   19821.  (a) The two primary components of the program established
pursuant to this chapter shall be prevocational training and
preemployment preparation.  A certified vocational evaluator and a
rehabilitation counselor, in consultation with the client, family
members, or advocates shall determine the component into which a
client shall enter the program.
   (b) Clients who are assessed as having adequate daily living
skills or who satisfactorily complete this component shall, if
interested in community-based employment, receive prevocational
training.  Clients who successfully complete the prevocational
component shall be eligible to receive preemployment preparation
training.  Clients in the preemployment preparation component shall
be assisted in formulating and achieving a vocational action plan, as
well as obtaining the vocational skills necessary for its
achievement.
  SEC. 2.  There is hereby appropriated the sum of one hundred
fifteen thousand dollars ($115,000) from the General Fund to the
Department of Rehabilitation for allocation  to Jewish
Vocational Services, Inc. in Los Angeles,  for startup costs
and first-year implementation of Chapter 9.5 (commencing with
Section 19820) of Part 2 of Division 10 of the Welfare and
Institutions Code.